Category: Visual Studio

It’s taken quite some time, but I’ve finally put the new DevTips.NET website online. The old site was really… old. The codebase was from 2001 when I learned to code in C# myself. You can imagine it didn’t incorporate best[…]

This just in: “The Microsoft MVP Award is our way of saying thank you and to honor and support the significant contributions you make to communities worldwide. As a recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award, you join an elite[…]

So yes, I tried to escape but resistance is futile. André Obelink was kind enough to tag me, and therefore, it seems I need to divulge some trivia you may not know from me. 1. I learned computing around the[…]

When Mary Jo Foley writes that Firefox will get support for Windows Cardspace, a number of bloggers will pick up on that (see also here  and here). Although choice is never a bad thing, there was a Firefox extension doing that already.[…]

It’s out that Windows Vista has been made available for download for MSDN subscribers. For developers that are running Visual Studio 2005 on Vista, Microsoft has created a page listing all known issues:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948853.aspx This one caught my attention: Title:[…]

Fellow MVP Maurice de Beijer recently launched a Wiki-based website on Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Although I sometimes find wikis difficult to navigate, Maurice has managed to publish a significant amount of information. Here’s a short list: Tracing Workflow Foundation Spawned[…]

The Activator class is of good use when you want to instantiate classes at runtime. Here’s a sample of how this works.             Type t = Type.GetType(“CompanyNameSpace.MyClass”);             Object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t); Looks pretty easy. It gets[…]

This year’s TechEd in Barcelona, it was the first time I had a videocamera with me. A good opportunity to shoot some videos. Everyone seems to be doing this. The video below is a small interview with Damir Tomicic. He’s the[…]

Yesterday, I arrived in Barcelona for the 2006 TechEd: Developers conference. I’ll be hovering around the ATE and community lounge area mostly, while trying to catch a session here and there. Here’s the first picture, showing the bag there giving[…]

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